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Salatha Helton and Saida Oliver

Jennifer Brantley is an amazing friend, at least in Amanda Palmer’s view. Brantley is a senior at HPU and a fulltime mom with a one-year-old daughter. Brantley made time to hold a fundraiser to help Palmer, a fellow HPU student and friend, raise money for the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America, a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to finding a cure for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. .

Do women still earns less than men?

Women continue to earn less money than men each year, $13,087 less, according to a 2000 Census Bureau report. According to Kristen Gerencher of CBS MarketWatch, more women are graduating from college and attending top schools in law and medicine, but women in general are still represented as having more jobs in retail sales and teaching, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.